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2005-04-15 Home Front: Culture Wars

Writer Fabricated Boston Globe Story on Seal Hunt

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Posted by tu3031 2005-04-15 4:40:07 PM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 MSM surprise meter... big fat zero.

Fascinating. As if there were no real stories to write about. I guess that the credo invented by Newsweek several decades ago, "We're not in business of providing news, we're in business to influence perceptions", is now the 'in' thingy.

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-04-15 7:31:39 PM|| 2005-04-15 7:31:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 LOL - thanks for the schadenfreude

Posted by Frank G 2005-04-15 7:37:55 PM|| 2005-04-15 7:37:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Down, baby, bring it down. Does anyone believe that newspapers as we know them will still exist in 2015?

Posted by thibaud (aka lex) 2005-04-15 7:39:28 PM|| 2005-04-15 7:39:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Oh the horror...

All those seals left alive! We must get them before they turn on us!

Nothing says peace and harmony like dead baby seals.

Posted by badanov 2005-04-15 8:27:34 PM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2005-04-15 8:27:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 LMAO - I think .com referred to this kind of thing as "predictive news."

Posted by Matt 2005-04-15 8:33:53 PM|| 2005-04-15 8:33:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Ironically, the saving grace of newspapers will be to become more like blogs. For example, the paper has an editor and some serious journalists, whose job it is to check facts, avoid plagiarism, and do phone confirmations with major players. But their reporters are all stringers, average people who send in email stories. If the stories are accepted, they get paid a nominal amount, say 25 cents for an average, 50 cents for a good, and for a real breaker, maybe up to a hundred dollars.Everybody, and I mean everybody, would provide them with a huge amount of fresh material. This would handle the local news. And then, the newspaper has agreements with literally hundreds of Internet sites, to use their original material for free, if they give a byline to the website or blog. This would create a virtual equivalent to a wire service a dozen times larger than AP, UPI and Rooters combined. Breaking news, information, opinion from the four corners of the world, all original, all scott free. The big advantage of this kind of newspaper is that it concentrates all the news you could get from hours and hours of surfing.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-04-15 8:34:30 PM|| 2005-04-15 8:34:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Anonymoose, you want dinosaurs change spots. As they sau, when pigs fly...

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-04-15 8:41:07 PM|| 2005-04-15 8:41:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 PIMF sau=say

(Rene, get off my freakin' keyboad! How I am supposed to type over you?!)

...if all else fails, blame the cat... ;-)

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-04-15 8:44:02 PM|| 2005-04-15 8:44:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Rooters will snap her up - no cultural orientation needed - she's ready for prime time.

Posted by .com 2005-04-15 8:45:03 PM|| 2005-04-15 8:45:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 .com, Rene? No, too intelligent. But Georgia may do... if you just hear her talk, as annoying as...Maureen Dowd. LOL

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-04-15 8:50:43 PM|| 2005-04-15 8:50:43 PM|| Front Page Top

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